Perceived Peer Support as a Moderator of the Relationship between Core Self-Evaluations and Career Adaptability among University Students from Papua Region

Abstract

Introduction. According to The Organizer of Indonesian Higher Education (2018), 7% of students in Papua and West Papua drop out of college. In contrast, this figure is much higher than the national dropout rate, which is 3%. For Papuan students to succeed academically, they ought to have a good career adaptability. Papuan students with higher career adaptability have the resources to be responsible and adapt to the university environment. Career adapta-bility may be influenced by key factors such as core self-evaluation and perceived peer sup-port. Method. This study examines the role of perceived peer support in moderating the relation-ship between core self-evaluations and career adaptability. The participants consisted of stu-dents from Papua (N=176) who have been actively carrying out their lectures since year 2011-2020. Result. The result of the moderation analysis using the Hayes Process shows that perceived peer support significantly moderated the relationship between core self-evaluations and career adaptability (t=2.06, p